Life Quotes
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!William Shakespeare
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Oscar Wilde
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - So I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.M. Cartmill
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.Berenson
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.Albert Einstein
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
In order to write about life, first you must live it!Ernest Hemingway
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.Sir Winston Churchill
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
Most of the luxuries and many of the so - Called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.Henry David Thoreau
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.Sir Laurence Olivie
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.Benjamin Disraeli
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.Rainer Maria Rilke
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.Les Brown
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.Agnes de Mille
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P. D. James
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.Florence Shinn
Take a chance All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.Dale Carnegie
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.Saul David Alinsky
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.Blaise Pascal
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.Cato the Elde
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.Samuel Johnson
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.H. T. Leslie
